Build bikes · build skills · build futures
More than a bike.A way forward.
Every bamboo bike built in our workshops funds accredited skills programmes — in schools, with young people, and inside prisons — opening routes to confidence and green careers for people too often left out.
A social enterprise CIC · enhanced-DBS facilitators · public-liability insured
Hand-built bamboo · lugged by hand
One craft. One engine for change.
We're not a bike shop with a charity attached. The workshops fund the mission directly.
One club, many ways in.
Build your own
Workshops in London, Amersfoort & Toulouse — or a kit shipped to your door. No experience needed.
Workshops & kits →
Work with us
Accredited programmes for prisons, schools and colleges — plus corporate team-building days.
Our programmes →
Back the mission
Fund a cohort, offer placements, or champion our work. We're a CIC — every bike funds the mission.
Get involved →Building bikes. Building futures.
The same hands-on build runs in schools, with young people facing barriers, and inside prisons turning making into real skills, confidence and green careers for people the system too often leaves out.
The bike was the first thing I ever made with my own hands. When my daughter rode it on family visit day, I felt like a dad again.
— A Build to Bond makerIf you can use a few hand tools, you can build this.
Simple method, hand tools, low-cost renewable material — open to all ages, backgrounds and abilities.
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Simple hand tools
No welding, no factory — just a jig and a few hand tools.
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No experience needed
Most builders have never made anything before.
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Low cost to start
A renewable material and a kit that ships worldwide.
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All ages & abilities
From schoolkids to Jon, who built a frame with one hand.
From bare bamboo to the open road.
Frame kits, shipped worldwide.
4,000+ builders. 4,000+ stories.
When broken down, every step was actually simple and achievable. We think building things is a mythical thing only geniuses can do — it isn't.
Soraya · first-time builder
Riding it for the first time is so different to one I bought from a shop. With this, I think: I made something.
As featured in The Independent
Going to the workshop was hands-down one of the best things I have ever done — a bespoke creation that's structurally sound.
As featured in The Guardian
Build it. Ride it. Pass it on.
Whether you build a bike, run a programme, or fund a cohort — you become part of the loop.
See a bamboo bike come together
Build film by Julian Goulding · a Bamboo Bicycle Club community build
From raw bamboo to a frame that rides — in a couple of days, with no factory in sight.